Pool-table pocket



April 28, 1925.

A. LEONE POOL TABLE POCKET Filed March 1O m M N m m ATTORNEY.

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Patented Apr. 28, 1925.

U ST A T E-S PA TENT ANTHQNXLEONE, F GREENSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

POOL-TABLE POCKET.

Application filed March 10, 1923.

tireensburg, in the county of estn'iorelaml and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and. useful Improvements in Pool-'ilable Pockets, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to pool table pockets, and the general object of the invention is to provide means whereby the pocket may be removed from the table in a very short time.

A. further object of the invention is to provide a pocket which may be removed from the table by simply unbuttoning the buttons which hold the pocket to the pocket iron.

A still further. object is to so construct this pocket that it willactflin all respects like an ordinary pocket but at the same time is readily reu'iovable without the necessity of removing alarge number of bolts, which is necessary at the present time.

Other objects will appear in the course of the following description.

lily invenion is illustrated in the act-our panying drawings, wherein li igure '1. is a top plan view of one corner oi a pool table with my pocket applied thereto li i g ure iron;

Figure 2 is a top plan view of the pocket 3 is a sectional view on the line 3*?) of Figure 1;

Figure t is a fragmentary longitudinal sectional view of the leather casing and allied parts appliedto a portion of the table iron;

l igure 5 is a perspective view of one end of the leather casing;

Figure Gis a fragmentary sectional view taken on the same plane as Figure 3 but showing a modification in the means for holding the flanges and 16 closed upon the pocket.

Referring to these drawings, it will be seen that 10 designates the ordinary pocket iron, this pocket iron being approximately semi-circular in plan with somewhat tangentially extending terminals 11,01130111'2L1 in cross section and each having an aperture 12 extending vertically downward through this extension of the iron.

As shown in Figure 2, the iron is nar- Serial No. 624,201.

rower at its middle than at the ends of the semi-circle, where it is relatively broad, and thebroadcned end terminates in a shoulder 18 which intersects the corresponding pin or-entension 11. The top face 01": the iron is transverselyll at at the ends but the mid dle of the iron curves outward and down wardto the under face. The under face of the iron extends upward and forward to the inner edge face, which is relatively thin.

So far li'have described an iron of ordinary character and my invention does not relate thereto.

Adapted to extend over and encase this iron is a leather casing, designated generally 14. This is formed of a single thickness of leather which is shaped to lit the iron and to provide a downwardly extend ing, inner, marginal portion 15 and a downwardl extending, outer, marginal portion 16. These marginal portions 1o and 16 are disposed immediately opposite each other and the ieat-her :asing is so formed that the leather casing extends inward under the under face of the. iron 10 so as to hri {A the two longitiulinally curved marginal portions into ap iroxiinate eoncentricity to each other and, in approximate con tact. The outer flange or i'nacrgiual portion 16 is formed with a series of scar-hots 17, each of these socl ets bein headed, as at 18, upon the outer suiiace the flange 1.6 and the flange 15 ot' the leather casing is provided upon its inner surface with a series of inwardly projecting, elastic studs 19 adapted to be inserted into the sockets 17 and having engagement therewith. In other words, the sockets 1'? and the studs 19 are formed by ordinary snap iasteners ot a rel atively large size.

ll he ends of the casing .1 e1: estend downward, as at 20, over the end faces 1!) of the iron 10 and are cut awvay as at 9 31, to sur round the bases of the extensions 11. Attached to the inner face of the flange 15 is a leather skirt whose lower margin is scalloped along its lower edge. This leather or leatheroid material has its upper margin folded and stitches Qi-Jhold this shirt to the flange 15. The flange 16 is also provided with a skirt 2% of leatheroid or like imitation leather material, the upper edge of which is inwardly turned. and this shirt along its upper edge is stitched to the flange CJI formed and shaped so that it has permancntiy the general form or the iron 10. The pocket, which is of the usual reticulated material and which is desi 'nated 25, has attached to one margin thereof and for approximately half of the diameter of the pocket a band 26 which may be made of leather, leatheroid, fiber or any other suitable material, this band being composed of two superposed thicknesses stitched together around the margins of the thicle ncsscs and stitched to the net work pocket This band adjacent its upper margin is provided with a plurality of openings 27 through which the studs 19 are adapted. to pass. The tree portion of the upper margin of the reticulated pocket 95 is adapted to be connecle to the body of the table by any suitable means as, for instance, by large headed tacks or by retaining plates. The means whereby this portion of the pocket is retained against the table forms no part of my present invention.

In the use of this device, the casing lat is disposed to surround and encase the iron 10, as illustrated in Figure 3. and the band 26 is disposed between the flanges 15 and 16. The studs 19 pass through the apertures 27 of the bano and into the sockets 17, thus holding the band and the pocket in proper engagement with the casing 1d of the iron 10. W hen it is desired to remove the pocket in order to replace it by a new pocket. it is only necessary to pull outward upon the flange 16, thus detaching the snap fastener members from engagement with each other, and when this has been done the band 96 may be pulled oil of the studs 19 or will slip therefrom and a new pocket may be put in position with its hand between the tlangcs 15 and 16 and then these flanges forced together, causing the snap fasteners to engage. The tree portion of the pocket may be then attached to the under face of the table in any suitable manner.

Ordinarily in removing a pocket from a table as ordinarily constructed, some ten bolts have to be removed and the iron "frame or pocket iron removed so that it takes about a half hour to remove a pocket. JJith my coi'istruction, the pocket may be removed and a new pocket attached in but a few minutes and this without removing the iron and without removing any bolts.

Yi hile I have illustrated an embodiment of my invention which l have found to be thoroughly effective and which is very simple, I do not wish to be limited thereto, as it is obvious that the details of construction might be varied without departing from the spirit of the invention as embodied in the appended claims.

Thus, for instance, in Figure 6 I have shown a modified form of means for holding the flanges 15 and 1G in engagement with the pocket, this modification consisting in the use of a fastening device formed in two sections which have engagement with each other by coacting threads. This fastening device comprises the socket member 17 having a socket which is interiorly screwthreaded and the stud member 19 which has a stud which is exteriorly screw-threaded to lit within the socket member. This construction perm its the holding device or fastening device to be removed and re-used when it lXCOll'lQS necessary to put on a new pocket, whereas with the c mstruction illustrated in l igures 3 and l, for instance, the metal but tens or snap fasteners can be no longer used when the pocket is thrown away. This reduecs the cost of production of: the pocket the button will be removed from the old pocket when the pocket is worn out and put into the new pocket.

I elaimz- A pool table pocket including a pocket iron, a casing enclosing and fitting the pocket iron and formed to provide opposite depending margins having coacting fastening members and the pocket proper having band insertiblc between the a marginal mar is of the casing and having apertures through which the snap fastener members engage.

2. A pool table pocket including a semicircular pocket iron, a leather casing approximately semi-circular in plan and enclosing and fitting the pocket iron and formed to provide opposed depending margins having enacting snap fastener members, shirts attached to the outer "faces of said margins and depending below the same, and a pocket proper having a marginal band insertible between the margins and having apertures through which the snap fasteners engage.

3. A pool table pocket including a curved pocket iron, a leather c sing enclosing and fitting the pocket iron. and formed to provide opposed cepending margins extending the length or the curved portion of the pocket iron, the outer flange carrying a series 01" open sockets and the inner flange having a series of inwardly projecting, coacting studs insertible into the sockets, and a pocket having a narginal band attached to the pocket along a portion of its margin and adapted to be disposed between said margins of the casing, the marginal band having apertures through which the studs pass.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature.

ANTHONY LEONE. 

